King Henry Muir Analysis

Muir uses diction to make the essay come alive and exert power on the words as well as the tone that makes us follow all his steps in this essay. Muir use of diction makes us imagine in our head the purity of the flower: "The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower." purity has a positive connotation when we read this word in his essay we think of something pure it something that is clean and free from anything that can contaminate and an even be something that can cure. We know their is no other thing like the calypso when he mentions the word outmost meaning their is no other thing like it in the whole swamp. We can make even the connection to a person when we view words simple purity like a high class person that is just absolutely kind and humble but yet shines.

In addition Muir uses tone when he says,I began to fear that I would not be able to reach dry ground before dark, and therefore would have to pass the night in the swamp and began, faint and hungry, to plan a nest of branches, I splashed on through the swamp, strong and
As well as the tone he uses is exactly what he wants us to see that nature has power over him. Wordsworth uses diction when he says, “lonely as a cloud” This shows the negative felling his going through. He feels lonely and very sad. His diction connotes to something unpositive his going through so this is the start of the poem that guides us through what was the purpose of his walk and that indeed he is sad. "A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company" another example of diction that has a positive connotation his heart is now filled with happiness as he is accompanied by this positive and happy people. He is even using personification because he is the daffodils human characteristics that they are cheerful company like a human